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** Task One: **
//For your first literature circles you will create a general overview of your novel. On this home page please create the following.// //Remember be creative, use color, images and sound!//

1. Ship Breaker is set in the Gulf Coast Region of America, with the time, in the future. The mood is eerie, dangerous, and determined. The environments vary, taking place in a dark and haunted abandoned ship, a beautiful island with white sand and aqua water, a ship wreck, and the dirty, murky polluted waters of Louisiana.

2. Character List- make sure to list each main character and include a brief description and quote from the character Character List- Nailer- Tanned scarred skin, dark hair, blue eyes- small, skinny Sloth- Irish, blonde hair, pretty blue eyes, hair chopped short- small, skinny Pima- dark skin, scarred, too big for light crew, too small for heavy Richard- wiry, mustache, Bapi- fat, mustache Nita- beautiful, dark hair, soft skin, nice body, rich Tool- half man, half dog, pointed teeth, huge

blue eyes, hair chopped short, small, skinny || dark skin,blackhair, scarred skin || wiry, muscular,mustache || fat, bald,mustache || beautiful dark-haired, soft skin || half manhalfdog,pointed teeth, huge and muscular || Bottom of pg. 57 || "Bapi's quick brown eyes studied them, alert for signs that they'd gone lazy and weren't serious about savaging for quota." Bottom of pg. 13 ||  || "'Spending money on the poor is like throwing your money into a fire. They'll just consume it and never thank you,' Tool said." Bottom of pg. 209 ||
 * Character || Nailer || Sloth || Pima || Richard || Bapi || Nita || Tool ||
 * Appearance || tanned,skinny,dark-hair, blue eyes, small || Irish,blonde,pretty
 * Background || Nailer is the protagonist, h e wants to better his life in the book and uses the power of the Fates to guide him. || Tends to make hast || Nailer's best friend. Finds Nita || Richard Lopez is Nailer's rude and abusive father. He's addicted to drugs and alcohol. He will do anything for money and power. || Bapi is in charge of the shipbreaking company Nailer is part of. || Nita is t he girl that Nailer and Pima find in the broken ship. She wants to go back to her people and has Nailer come with her. She is rich and in danger. || Nailer's half-man friend who helps min and Nita travel through New Orleans with Nita. ||
 * Quote ||  || "And sloth was too damn eager to steal his slot. Her words lingered in his mind: '//I'll get twenty times the scavenge he does.'//" ||   || "He knew now that his father was mapping out the violence, planning to catch Nailer, to teach him some respect."

**Task Two - Discussion Prompt 1:**
=== Who are the Bangladeshi ship breakers? Access the following site, read the article, and play the video to find out. === [] The Bangladeshi ship breakers are men who are i n poverty and are trying to get any job they can. They are working for a little more than $1 a day. They strip dead ships every day to get resources to sell.

** Think about conditions under which they work. **
 The men who labor here are the wretched of the earth, doing dirty, dangerous work, for little more than $1 a day. In the day it is a filthy horrible job with horrible chemicals poisoning the water and themselves. There are deformities because of this and the heat from the sun is shining right on them. At tight work continues. It is a fiery inferno in the dark. Men are still working hard trying to earn the $1 a day. Fumes and smoke are coming out attacking the people. === At what age does the U.S. allow children to begin work? What are the conditions or laws under which they work? Find a site with this information. What age does India allow children to work? What are the conditions or laws under which they work? Find a site with this information. === It could be as close as you'll get to hell on earth, with the smoke, the fumes, and the heat. === Who are the child laborers in today's world and in which countries are they mostly located? What types of jobs do they perform? === []


 * Look at the following video:**

[] The child workers today are the people doing dirty work that no one else is. It is in India, Haiti, Kenya Bangladesh and more. AS an individual: Then write a reflection individually under Discussion Post 1. Pay attention to conventions, organization, and ideas and content.THEN: Read and comment on your other group's posts. Respond to the various articles on the Bangladeshi ship workers. What connections do you see with Ship Breaker? What connections do you see with your research from PoP?
 * AS as group:** Talk about what you saw and read.

Source: http://montycores.wikispaces.com/Ship+Breaker

The author creates suspense by first explaining the setting as dangerous and mysterious in an abandoned ship.
 * Discussion Prompts 2- Group **
 * 1. How does the author begin to create his world? How does he build suspense? **

The dystopia is in the future where things are worse than right now. The ships pollute the beach, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Life is bad for the poor. However, the utopia is that for the rich, life is amazing. They have everything they want and they live a life of luxury.
 * 2. In Chapters 4-6, the author creates contrasts. In this dystopia, there is utopia. Describe these elements fully. **

I think that Fates isn’t necessarily a religion, because the definition of religion is worship of a supernatural being, or God. The people in Shipbreaker don’t think that Fates are gods, they’re just the random or luck element of the world.
 * 3. Discuss the term "fate". Is it a religion? Dumb luck? Does your opinion agree with Sadhna's or Nailers? **


 * 4. Paolo mentions the old wrecks that the Bright Sands Beach kids scavenge as those from the Accelerated Age, meaning our time. Why would he use this term? **

Because in our time, we use and discard many things due to consumerism. Right now, the consumerism chain is accelerating and eventually will get faster and faster and turn into the future of ship breaker.


 * 5 Why did the author pick the term "clipper ship" for his swank vessel? Look up clipper ships, tell what they were like, and describe the differences between them and Paolo's ships. 1. How does the author begin to create his world? How does he build suspense? **

Clipper ships look like old fashioned boats with tons of masts. Paolo’s ships are metal, and look like the ships we use now. It suggests that the world is so used to metal boats and modern ships, that the old fashioned clipper ships are better, and everyone wants them.

VOCAB

impassively:

without emotion;apathetic; unmoved.

allegiance:

The loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign

encroached:

to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits

retribution:

requital according to merits or deserts, especially for

speculatively:

pertaining to, of the [|nature] of, or characterized by [|speculation], contemplation, conjecture, or abstractreasoning: a speculative approach.

metropolitan:

of or pertaining to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, andother neighboring communities: the New York metropolitanarea.

Creole:

a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but ofEuropean, usually Spanish, ancestry.

pylons:

a marking post or tower for guiding aviators, frequently usedin races.

affiliations:

to attach or unite on terms of fellowship

roiled:

to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex: to be roiled by a delay.

usurper:

to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by [|force] or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.

reverie:

a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost inreverie.

goading:.

a  stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.

quarry:

an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from [|which] building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.

gossamer:

something extremely light, flimsy, or delicate.

monofilament:

generally large [|filament] of synthetic fiber.